{"id":2895,"date":"2026-06-08T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:14:30","slug":"oral-history-of-kathy-sapp-ernest-sapp-and-alfreda-gary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Kathy Sapp, Ernest Sapp, and Alfreda Gary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oral History of Kathy Sapp, Ernest Sapp, and Alfreda Gary\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfNhJV38lS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An oral history interview with Kathy Sapp, Ernest Sapp, and Alfreda Gary. The interview was conducted by Sebastian Garcia at the Callahan Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore, family history, and childhood experiences, family occupations and running dry cleaning businesses, family challenges and triumphs while living in Parramore, siblings, church involvement, and community life, Kathy Sapp\u2019s education journey and career as an educator, Ernest Sapp\u2019s family struggles and personal life story, elementary school experiences at Holden Street and Callahan, high school experiences at Jones, Boone, and Cherokee including band and cheerleading, childhood aspirations and reflections on growing up in Parramore, changes to Jones High School and its lasting impact, businesses in Parramore\u2019s past including stores, gas stations, and restaurants, defining Parramore\u2019s boundaries and neighborhood identity, community challenges in the past and the influence of churches, challenges facing Parramore in the present day and changes in the neighborhood, and reflections on Parramore\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oral history interview with Kathy Sapp, Ernest Sapp, and Alfreda Gary. The interview was conducted by Sebastian Garcia at the Callahan Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore, family history, and childhood experiences, family occupations and running dry cleaning businesses, family challenges&hellip;","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}